Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIBoring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
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In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.
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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
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The tigers have found me and I do not care.
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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom – love – happiness.
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Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
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I lie as truthfully as I can.
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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.
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The trouble with a mask is it never changes.
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We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
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Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.
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I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
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